Tag: plant based education
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Podcast: with Patrick McKeown author of The Oxygen Advantage
Welcome! and thank you for listening. Today I have a special guest, Patrick Mckeown. He is the author of The Oxygen Advantage and leads workshops throughout his native Ireland, North America, Europe, and Australia on the benefits of breathing “light” We can go 40 days without eating, and several days without water, but only a…
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Podcast: Takeaways for the Week
Welcome! and thank you for listening. It has been an exciting week launching our book-Plant-based wellness cookbook-three generations of cooking: with the Doctor, the Dietitian, and the Diva. In this episode I will discuss how my week fit together with new studies about meat, new discussions about the microbiome, and new observations and successes from…
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Podcast: The Doctor, the Dietitian, and the Diva Introduce the new Plant Based Wellness Cookbook
Welcome! and thank you for listening. It has arrived. I am joined today by my mom, the Diva, my daughter, the Dietitian to announce that our cookbook is finally available for purchase. I could not be more pleased than to have created this cookbook with 2 of my favorite people. My mother is a lighthouse…
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Podcast: Sometimes You Just Have to Play
Welcome! and thank you for listening. I just got back from Houston, Texas where we celebrated Addie Majnaric, RDN and the Diva aka my Mother’s birthdays. We celebrated by playing. We ran, went to TopGolf, and to the University of Houston’s football training facility. A family that play’s together stays healthy together. The world…
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Blogpost: Fear of not getting enough
You know the vegan drill. Where do I get my protein? How about calcium? What about good fats? Will I be hungry? Will I be satisfied? Yes, satisfaction is the real problem that is feared when considering becoming a plant strong vegan. I heard a discussion about food deserts. It is a real problem in…
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Blogpost: Is a Vegan Diet the Best?
We all want to be the best we can be. So why not eat the best so we can be the best. However, when it comes to nutrition, I am more likely to hear, I eat “pretty healthy”. It seems as though most people are quite satisfied with “pretty healthy”. We lower the bar when…
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Blogpost: How TV can Reinforce Misconceptions
Pharmaceutical advertisements are aimed to sell wellness through medications. They are also aimed at diverting the causation of the illnesses, and taking away any power of the individual to influence their diseases. The overweight kind man wants to spend more time with his grandchildren so he takes a diabetic medication or cholesterol medications to control…
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Blogpost: How much weight can you exercise off?
Most people blame the lack of exercise for weight gain. If only they had more time or discipline to exercise their weight would be better. Gym memberships are as common as Netflix accounts, but we still have an obesity problem in this country. I see the same 3 people walking on my morning runs. No…
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Podcast: Mendocino 50K recap and more
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. The Mendocino 50K is in the books. It was a great race with great support and great post race food. It was great to do a vegan race and meet a lot of plant strong people. Slowly more evidence is coming out to support plant based nutrition in…